New York Life’s Celebrating Good: a favorite holiday tradition.

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Making homemade apple crisp.
Decorating the Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving.
Driving through the holiday light show.
Baking Christmas cookies.
Drinking hot cocoa by the fire before opening gifts.

Those are just a few of my favorite family holiday traditions – ones that I look forward to every year, and ones that I hope to one day pass along to my own children.

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No matter how old I get, the holidays are such a special and magical time of year. As much as I love the celebrating, the food, and the gifts, there’s nothing better than having the quality time to spend with my family. Even if we don’t live close to each other anymore, I always know that the holiday season will bring us back together.

Since moving to New York City a few years ago, I don’t get as much time with my family around the holidays as I used to. That’s why the time that I do get to spend with them is cherished more than ever!

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Since moving to NYC, we’ve started a new family tradition of sorts. Sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas, my family comes to visit me and enjoy the fun holiday festivities that New York has to offer. Some of our favorite things to do together are go out to dinner at a favorite restaurant, see the Rockettes at the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, go to Macy’s in Herald Square, and see the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center.

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After their visit, I head back to my parents’ house for the remainder of the holiday celebrations. It’s such a perfect way for them to get to experience my new home here in New York before heading back to the home I grew up in.

I am extremely thankful for my family, and I am happy that I get to spend time with them. During the holiday season I think it’s so important to not only be thankful, but also to take opportunities to be generous to others.

That’s why I love how New York Life is encouraging people to share their own special Keep Good Going moments and experiences, and are donating 25 meals to Feeding America for every tweet.

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Comments

  13. Chi Shannon says

    I am thankful for my daughters! :) They are truly awesome and wonderful people! I’m also thankful for life itself :) Things are pretty good right now and I hope they continue to be the same next year :)

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  16. says

    I am thankful that my husband has a job where he not only has 5 weeks of paid vacation but also all of his holidays off. I was so saddened to see so many businesses open on Thanksgiving and now on New Year’s Eve/Day. People should be able to be with their families. We do not need to be able to shop and eat out on these holidays.

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  27. Cathy Truman says

    I am most thankful for my wonderful husband who learned how to walk again
    after having a stroke and being told he would not walk again.

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